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All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Swami Vivekananda1863–1902Pearls of Wisdom
- Knowledge
Without perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman’s education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.
John Ruskin1819–1900Speech to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (1877), in Arrows of the Chase, vol. 2
- Animals
You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.
Erasmus1466–1536Letter to Christian Northoff (1497), as translated in Collected Works of Erasmus (1974), p. 114
- Knowledge
This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits.
Rachel Carson1907–1964Silent Spring (1962), Chapter 2, Page 13
- Knowledge
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)In context
- Knowledge
I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
Matthew Arnold1822–1888The Functions of Criticism at the Present Time (1864)
- Knowledge
To Generalize is to be an Idiot. To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit — General Knowledges are those Knowledges that Idiots possess.
William Blake1757–1827Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Discourses, pp. xvii–xcviii (c. 1798–1809)
- Intelligence
- Knowledge
There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II (1775) p. 273
- Comedy
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe… Yet, clumsily or smoothly, the world, it seems, progresses and will progress.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The Outline of History (1920), Ch. 41
- History
We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of “separate but equal” has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
Earl Warren1891–1974Writing for the court, Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954)
- Race
A desire for knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being, whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all he has to get knowledge.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Dr. Johnson’s Table Talk (London: 1807), p. 64
- Knowledge
Some say it is unfair to hold disadvantaged children to rigorous standards. I say it is discrimination to require anything less–-the soft bigotry of low expectations.
George W. Bushborn 1946Campaign speech to the NAACP (2000).
To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is … the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
John Quincy Adams1767–1848Report on the establishment of the Smithsonian Institution (c. 1846)
- Knowledge
Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little: it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970An Outline of Philosophy Ch.15 The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics (1927)
- Knowledge
- Science
Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.
Sri Aurobindo1872–1950Jnana
- Inspiration
- Knowledge